Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Facebook announces update to Safety Check that will let users share reports of what’s happening on the ground and updates its blood donation hub — Facebook today announced an update to its Crisis Response feature that expands the tool from simply allowing you to mark yourself as safe … Source: http://www.techmeme.com

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The team behind secure messaging app Signal says Amazon has threatened to kick the app off its CloudFront web service unless Signal drops the anti-censorship practice known as domain-fronting. Google recently banned the practice, which lets developers disguise web traffic to look like it’s coming from a different source, allowing apps like Signal to evade country-level bans. As a result, Signal…